Simpson Logic
My mate Simmy, who gained his imaginative nickname by virtue of his surname being Simpson, is one of the most decent, generous people I've ever met. He's also one of the most gullible, which is why we used to play practical jokes galore on him at university.

Simmy was also poor at reasoned debate and arguing a point. He'd start to argue his case, then as it was refuted by others, he'd gradually swing round until he was arguing exactly the opposite. This always amused us.

One day, another of our bunch, Alan, who was studying computer science, came in with a huge grin on his face and said, "You'll never guess, Simmy. We had a lecture today about a form of logic in which it is possible to prove that 1 = 0, and it's called 'Simpson Logic'. They must have named it after you."

Of course he'd made this all up, but Simmy swallowed it hook, line and sinker, and it was brought up at regular intervals whenever there was any sort of debate going on.

We eventually told him the truth on the night of our graduation dinner. His response was one of incredulity, to say the least, because he'd believed it for years. This was followed of course by several shouts of "You bunch of bastards!" and similar.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 17 Dec 2007, 13:43, Reply)